It was at the end of October when Qin Zheng and his team arrived in Beijing from Xi'an. Since the two sides had reached an agreement in Xi'an, just a few days ago, Yuan Shikai personally led more than 8,000 Beiyang New Army to Beijing and took over the defense of the surrounding areas of Beijing. All the People's Army stationed in Beijing were retreated to Beijing and prepared to evacuate. Of course, in Shandong, the remaining Beiyang Army stationed in the area were all evacuated to the surrounding areas of Jinan Prefecture, and all the garrisons in other areas were handed over to the People's Army.

Before the Beiyang Army arrived in Beijing, the work of the Crossing Group to evacuate from Beijing was fully launched. The Crossing Group recruited about 17,000 troops and more than 1,600 other staff members in the Beijing area. The soldiers were basically willing to move their families to settle in the areas controlled by the Crossing Group.

More than a thousand people in Beijing are willing to leave with the People's Army. After all, most of these people were ordinary people in the past. Even if they were not officials, they could be considered as officials and had a good income. If overseas Chinese leave, they would naturally lose this promising job. In addition, although overseas Chinese have not controlled Beijing for a long time, their style and behavior are very different from the Qing court, and they have won the praise of many Beijing people. Therefore, most of the staff are willing to follow the time travel group.

The Time Travel Group naturally welcomes this group of people to their own ruling areas, because these people have nearly half a year of work experience in Beijing and are familiar with the working habits of time travelers. Now the Time Travel Group is about to control the entire Shandong area and is in need of employment, so this group of people has a great place to use it.

However, there are more than 70,000 soldiers and their families, so it is not easy to move so many people to Tianjin, even Shandong. It turned out that there were two trains to Tianjin every day in Beijing, and now there were two more trains specifically used to relocate the families of people. Qin Zheng had moved more than 25,000 people when he arrived in Beijing, and the remaining personnel would be evacuated one after another.

After Prince Qing and Li Jingfang arrived in Beijing with Qin Zheng, they immediately met with Li Hongzhang and Yuan Shikai and told them in detail about the experience of overseas Chinese in Xi'an. Of course, they also talked about the storm caused by Wan Haicheng's request for bribes from overseas Chinese.

In fact, Li Hongzhang knew about these things from the telegram sent by Li Jingfang. After listening to Prince Qing’s speech, Li Hongzhang said: “Prince, I wonder how the Empress Dowager will deal with Wan Haicheng?”

Prince Qing was stunned and said, "When we left Xi'an, the Empress Dowager just imprisoned Wan Haicheng, but has not been dealt with yet." In fact, Cixi did not intend to deal with Wan Haicheng. This was not because she intended to protect Wan Haicheng, but because she intended to be unable to get along with overseas Chinese. Anyway, overseas Chinese have left, can she still be able to take care of herself?

Li Hongzhang naturally understood Cixi's intention, so he had to smile bitterly and said, "Prince, you don't know that you are in Xi'an. Now this matter has spread in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places."

Prince Qing was also a little surprised and said, "It has been so far, we don't know at all in Xi'an."

Yuan Shikai said: "It was the Chinese overseas who first reported this in Shanghai through newspapers, so other newspapers reprinted it and spread it like this. Xi'an is located in a remote place, so it is a blessing that I still don't know it."

It turned out that Wan Haicheng's bribes had naturally been reported back to Tianjin. The Executive Committee was like winning the treasure, because this material was so useful, and the Time Travel Group would eventually overthrow the Qing court. Now, due to the actual situation, it has to rely on the Qing court in fame. Then when it breaks with the Qing court in the future, it will definitely bear the name of rebellion. After all, China is a semi-feudal and semi-colonial society, and it is still dominated by feudal systems. The inertial thinking of orthodox thinking and the concept of monarch and ministers is still very strong. Therefore, in order to win the support of public opinion when breaking with the Qing court, it is not appropriate to spare time to smear the Qing court from now on and promote the Qing court's suppression of the Time Travel Group.

But relatively speaking, it is easy to find information to smear the Qing court, but there is actually a lot of information that doesn’t need to be found. However, the Qing court has almost no materials to suppress the Time Travel Group. After all, everyone knows that the Time Travel Group has an absolute advantage in its relationship with the Qing court. Who would believe it if the Qing court suppressed the Time Travel Group? Therefore, Wan Haicheng’s bribery was simply a good material that fell from the sky, and it was just a big story.

About a week after Qin Zheng and his party left Xi'an, the Time Travel Group first reported on the incident of Wan Haicheng's bribery in the [New China News]. Of course, it added fuel to the content. It not only exaggerated Wan Haicheng's arrogance and arrogant attitude, but also deliberately led the spearhead to the court, so it deliberately fabricated what Wan Haicheng said, such as:

"This is the rule that the ancestors of Daqing Kingdom have left behind. The price is clear and real. The central government has 10,000 yuan, the governor is 8,000 yuan, the governor is 5,000 yuan, the Taoist entourage is 3,000 yuan, and the rest are similar. Don't think of becoming an official without money."

"There is no surplus grain in the palace now. The Queen Mother, the Emperor, the Empress, the Little Lord, the Prince, and the Princess are all masters in a big stall. They need to eat, live, drink and pull. If you don't ask for money, who will go to you?"

"I have paid this money today. Can't I get it back from Caomin after taking office? I have added 2 or 5, and I have a lot of money. Let's go there to find such a good deal."

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After the report, it immediately caused a sensation in Shanghai. Other newspapers reprinted it one after another, hyping up the incident and quickly spread throughout the southeast coastal areas. At this time, the Qing court's control over speech had greatly weakened, and the people were very interested in matters involving the court.

At the same time, the time travelers arranged for many gunmen to write commentary articles and criticize the court in a large way. The main lines of criticism were two. One was to criticize the corruption of the court. At this time, they did not forget to accept bribes and solicit bribes. They did this under the eyes of the court. Such a system must be changed. The second was to seize the theme of the court suppressing overseas Chinese, indicating that because the overseas Chinese had too much credit, the court was suspicious of the heroes, so they deliberately let the eunuchs ask for bribes. Whether overseas Chinese gave them or not, the court had an excuse to suppress them. If they gave them, they would collude with the inner ministers, and if they didn't give them, they would despise the court, and then find excuses to reduce overseas Chinese, etc.

The eunuch's bribery is an unspoken rule that everyone knows, so everyone believes in this matter. However, the unspoken rule is an unspoken rule and cannot be put on the table. In addition, the time traveler intends to lead the rhythm, the news has not diminished, but the word "possessed" is accusing the court of wrongdoing. When Li Hongzhang discovered it, public opinion had already formed, and Li Hongzhang could not control the public opinion, so he had to order the governors and governors of various places to not spread the news to Xi'an, and then sent electricity to Ronglu and Wang Wenshao, asking them not to tell Empress Dowager Cixi if they received the news.

After hearing Li Hongzhang's introduction, Prince Qing realized it and was secretly surprised. It turned out that when he left Xi'an, overseas Chinese did not ask about Wan Haicheng's affairs, and thought they would no longer pursue it, but he did not expect that they would make the matter bigger and everyone knew about it. Although Prince Qing had no intelligence, he had worked in the Prime Minister's Office for several years and knew a little about the general trend of the world. Western countries attach great importance to newspapers, and they dared to say anything in the newspapers. Unexpectedly, overseas Chinese would do this.

When Li Hongzhang asked not to tell Cixi about this, Prince Qing even agreed. If the empress dowager knew about this, and then became tempted, and had a breakup with overseas Chinese, it would be troublesome. Although the empress dowager's temper has been much more restrained and overseas Chinese did not get angry when he was in Xi'an, no one could guess the empress dowager's thoughts. Therefore, it is better to have more things than to do less. Now everything is based on the court's return to Beijing as soon as possible.

After unifying his thoughts, Li Hongzhang immediately made an appointment with Qin Zheng and held a meeting. Of course, he kept silent about Wan Haicheng's bribes, captured the palace maids, etc., and only negotiated the time to hand over to Beijing.

In fact, at this point, the two sides did not have any major differences, so an agreement was quickly reached. In the end, the two sides agreed that at 10 a.m. on November 30, the traveler would formally transfer Beijing's administrative and military management power to the Qing court. In addition to leaving the staff and guards of the office, all administrative and military personnel of the traveling group were evacuated from Beijing. The Qing court also evacuated all the Beiyang Army, Shandong Governor's officials and Jinan Prefecture and withdraw from Shandong Province. The traveling group would officially take over Shandong Province. However, officials from other prefectures, prefectures and counties in Shandong remained until the end of their term. The local garrisons remained still, and the traveling group reorganized themselves, and required that all local officials in Shandong and the garrisons and the garrisons in Shandong still performed their own responsibilities to maintain normal local order.

At present, the railways from Tianjin to other regions will be jointly managed by the Crossing Group and Qingting. Among them, the two sides will set up three trains every day in the morning, noon and evening; and the number of trains for the remaining railways will be negotiated in detail by the relevant departments of both sides in the next step; the Qing court admitted that the Kaiping carbon mine, railway and other assets belong to the Crossing Group. The Crossing Group can open the train to the Kaiping coal mine on its own and can garrison troops in Kaiping, but the Qing army is protected along the railway, and the train can be escorted by the train, but if there is no danger, soldiers are not allowed to get off.
Chapter completed!